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THE BETTER TO EAT YOU

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A professor becomes enchanted with a girl who carries a dangerous jinx History student Sarah Shepherd does not look like a killer. She is shy, but her writing so impresses Professor David Wakeley that he asks her to become his research assistant. Terrified, she begs him to stay away. For Sarah Shepherd is stalked by death, and the professor could be her next victim. For years...

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CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

In a villa on the California coast, a murderer stalks a young heiress Laila Breen is a strangely naïve girl. Her father Jonas is an adventurer, a robber baron who made his fortune traveling exotic climes. Laila speaks French and knows how to order fine food, but she cannot read a newspaper and can barely write her own name. Jonas settles in California, planning to get this stra...

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THE CHOCOLATE COBWEB

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

Investigating her mysterious birth leads a bright young artist into peril For a few hours after her birth, Amanda Garth had two fathers. One was John, the kind, forthright man who would raise her. The other was Tobias Garrison, a well-known California artist who, because of a mix-up in the hospital's nursery, briefly thought Amanda was his. The confusion was straightened out, a...

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THE GIFT SHOP

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

This conspiracy thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author is "jet-paced, revved up for action before the first page is flipped over" ( The Pittsburgh Press). Bernie staggers off the airplane from Honolulu, a lei around his neck and blood seeping from the wound in his chest. He stumbles to the terminal gift shop, and demands the cashier point him to a payphone. As his life see...

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THE INNOCENT FLOWER

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

MacDougal Duff falls in with a strange family—and senses murder A sudden cloudburst forces MacDougal Duff to stop his car in front of the home of Mary Moriarty. The history professor turned detective is reclining in his seat, waiting out the torrential rainstorm, when Mary knocks on the car window holding a feverish child and jabbering about a dead woman. After years investigat...

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A LITTLE LESS THAN KIND

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

After his father's sudden death, a college student seeks revenge Ladd Cunningham never felt comfortable in his father's office. After high school he went to Stanford University rather than enter the family business, and he planned never to return. But then his father became ill, dying a slow, painful death, and Ladd was forced to come back. Ladd's new stepfather David Crown p...

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MISCHIEF

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A child is left in the care of a disturbed babysitter in "surely one of the finest pure terror-suspense stories ever written" ( The New York Times). Bunny's parents shouldn't have brought her to New York City, but her father has an important speech to make, and her mother couldn't bear to be away from their darling nine-year-old daughter. And when her mommy and daddy leave fo...

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THE SEVENTEEN WIDOWS OF SANS SOUCI

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A middle-aged widow makes a new life in a strange apartment house Nona Henry's husband is dead, and with him the life they spent years building in New York City. Unable to bear the Manhattan winter without him, Nona goes west to Pasadena, California, land of sun, sand, and rebirth. She finds a picture postcard advertising a boarding house called Sans Souci and, charmed by the e...

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THE TURRET ROOM

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

In this "chilling" novel by an Edgar Award–winning author, a former mental patient seeks revenge against the powerful family that framed him ( The New York Times). After years in a mental hospital, Harold Page has just been released. Now, he's looking for closure, hoping to confront those who put him away: his ex-wife's family. Instead, he's greeted at the Whitman home by a t...

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THE UNSUSPECTED

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

To catch a murderous theater impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role in this mystery with "suspense enough to spare" ( The New York Times). Why did Rosaleen Wright hang herself in a soundproof room? She left an unsigned note, peppered with stiff religious references and no trace of her trademark vitality or wit. The police believe it was suicide, but Rosaleen's best...

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THE BLACK-EYED STRANGER

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

The Edgar Award–winning author of The Unsuspected and Mischief delivers a “highly ingenious” novel of a high-profile kidnapping (The New York Times). Sam Lynch is not a crook, but most of his friends are. A journalist by trade, he has the inside scoop on every crime in New York City, but can’t write a word of it for fear of his sources turning violent. This makes it impossibl...

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THE CASE OF THE WEIRD SISTERS

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A millionaire is in danger from his murderous family in this “difficult to put down” tale from the Edgar Award–winning author (The Boston Globe). Alice Brennan is going to marry a millionaire. She has caught the eye of her boss, Innes Whitlock, but before they can tie the knot she must meet his sisters: three women who are so awful that no amount of money is worth enduring th...

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A DRAM OF POISON

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

Edgar Award winner: A longtime bachelor finally marries—only to learn the corrosive power of jealousy For fifty-five years, Kenneth Gibson has lived in backwaters. A former army clerk, he makes a quiet living teaching poetry to indifferent undergrads. His life is happily dull until the day he meets Rosemary, a damaged girl whose frailty compels Kenneth to try to make her well....

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SEVEN SEATS TO THE MOON

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A government secret about the end of the world will change what’s left of a man’s suburban life in this thriller by an Edgar Award–winning author. California businessman J. Middleton Little is on company assignment in Chicago when he’s caught eavesdropping on a top-secret confab between high-level government officials. J. knows he isn’t just hearing things; they actually referr...

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SOMETHING BLUE

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A shadow of doubt is cast over a California bride when dire warnings about her fiancé arise in this thriller from “the mistress of day-lit terror” (The New York Times). Johnny Simms, a young biology student from Columbia University, has just arrived in San Francisco for a wedding. The lucky bride-to-be is a childhood friend: twenty-year-old Nan Padgett. But the shy, unsure girl...

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THE PROTÉGÉ

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A young drifter charms his way into the confidence of an older woman in this twisting novel by “a pioneer in domestic suspense” (Lisa Unger). Seventy-four-year-old widow Mrs. Moffat lives in a quiet and idyllic California town, accustomed to routine and solitude in her country home. But everything changes when she runs into a charismatic young transient in church one Sunday mor...

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LEMON IN THE BASKET

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

Edgar Award Finalist: The explosive politics of the Middle East shatter a California family in this “wonderful thriller” (The New York Times). Among the Tylers of Santa Clara are a matriarch lauded as the first lady of American theater, a judicial appointee of the president, a noted fundraiser for international charities, a university vice-chancellor, and an esteemed and admire...

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THE WITCH'S HOUSE

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A madwoman holds a professor prisoner in this frightening thriller by the Edgar Award–winning “mistress of day-lit terror” (The New York Times). California University mathematics instructor Pat O’Shea is horrified to learn that a fellow faculty member is responsible for the theft of a valuable piece of lab equipment. But biology professor Everett Adams hasn’t just turned thief;...

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LAY ON, MAC DUFF!

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

This MacDougal Duff Mystery launched the career of the Edgar Award–winning “American queen of suspense novelists” (New York Telegraph). Feeling unmoored since the death of her father, twenty-year-old Bessie Gibbon has left upstate New York to live with an aunt and uncle, Lina and Charles Cathcart, in their four-story Manhattan home. Bessie has heard tales about her eccentric un...

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THE TROUBLE IN THOR

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A disaster in a Michigan mining town throws a close-knit community into chaos in this novel from an Edgar Award–winning author. The small mining town of Thor is nestled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. Its only source of income is the two ore mines—one to the east, one to west—that its citizens cling to for security. Then, one calm day, the town’s ...

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THE ALBATROSS

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

Making amends for a tragic accident, a couple fears their good deed is about to be punished in this suspense novel from the “mistress of day-lit terror” (The New York Times). In a roadside Santa Clara motel, Esther Gardner wakes up to an intruder lurching toward her. No one blames her husband, Tom, for taking him down with a single blow to the head—least of all the stranger h...

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THE DREAM WALKER

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A New York City drama teacher risks her life to expose a potentially deadly public hoax in this “most uncommon thriller” (New York Herald Tribune). Olivia Hudson, a drama teacher at a Manhattan girl’s school, refuses to let her uncle John Paul Marcus play the role of dupe in a real-life revenge story. Uncle John is a beloved war veteran, a New York institution, and a hard-worki...

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I SEE YOU

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

Nine stories of revenge, compassion, love, and loathing in a collection “to be cherished” from an Edgar Award–winning author (Dorothy B. Hughes). A child is unwittingly introduced to the very meaning of terror. A teenage girl eyes her mother’s lover with curiosity and caution. A nasty rumor poisons the reputation of a guarded neighbor. A schoolteacher’s attempt to reach four bu...

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DREAM OF FAIR WOMAN

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A nameless woman arrives in L.A., only to fall into a coma and be positively identified as three completely different people, in this twist-filled thriller. She arrived at Peggy Cuneen’s Los Angeles boarding house with no ID. She asked for a room, fell asleep silently, and has yet to wake up. Even doctors are baffled. The only thing they know for sure is there are no signs of p...

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THE BALLOON MAN

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

A woman attempts to flee her abusive husband in a thriller The New York Times Book Review calls “an unforgettable reading experience.” Overworked cocktail waitress Sherry Reynard doesn’t expect much anymore from her husband, Ward, whom she’s supported for years. A struggling writer and sometimes-junkie coddled by his wealthy parents, Ward spends his days lost in a fog of self-p...

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